Item and Sum

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Item noun - A separate part in a list, account, or series.

Usage example: she got all the items on her grocery list except cereal

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Sum is an antonym for item.

Nearby Words: itemize, itemise, itemised

Sum noun - A complete amount of something.

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Item is an antonym for sum.

good	good item	good sum
rare	rare item	rare sum
nice	nice item	nice sum
right	right item	right sum
Other adjectives: original, small, real, large, useless, ultimate, random, unknown.

When the government pays a military contractor (what to the public seems like) an unreasonably large sum for a mundane item, such as a toilet seat or screwdriver, that's Pentagon Spending.

Source: Useful Notes / The Pentagon

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